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Making noise is easy; making stuff people understand is an easy thing to do.

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Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.

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If you can use a search engine, you can find any piece of music that's been recorded for free. I'm not saying that's right, but it's a fact, and I'm surprised that more people don't accept or acknowledge that and try to adapt in some way.

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I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

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Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.

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Being a rock & roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.

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I like the idea of working in an album-sized chunk, you know, and I never looked at Nine Inch Nails as a project that would be a hit-driven, single-based kind of thing.

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I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.

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I used to buy vinyl. Today, if you do put out a record on a label, traditionally, most people are going to hear it via a leak that happens two weeks - if not two months - before it comes out. There's no real way around that.

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My life has been many examples of shortsighted goals that I thought would fix things. You know, if there's something broken inside me, if there's a hole in there, I thought: If I could just write a good song someday, then I'd be OK. You know, if I could just be on stage in front of people I'd never seen before and be validated by them.

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I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

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I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.

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I did not grow up in a cosmopolitan environment. I grew up in a little town in the middle of nowhere, pre-Internet, pre-college radio.

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Musicians have always adopted Macs.

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I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else.

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iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

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'Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts.

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Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I always had the same five discs in there. I'd never think to change it.

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I was never a Lime Wire guy because it's too much hassle to find the song.

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In my nothing, you were everything, to me.

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The reality is that people think it's okay to steal music.

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I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be.

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In Nine Inch Nails, I've been the guy calling the shots since inception. I'd gotten used to that.

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I'd never want to be Gene Simmons, an old man who puts on makeup to entertain kids, like a clown going to work.

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If I go onstage, I want to give people everything they want and more. I'll wash their car for them on their way out.

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When I first played 'Wolfenstein 3D,' it blew my mind. It had a big impact on me.

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Nine Inch Nails is like building an army to go conquer. We build it, then we play, and we have to play so much to validate building it, financially. It leads to getting burn-out because a tour that would be fun if it lasted three weeks has to last 15 weeks.

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I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

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I don't have a family. I'd like to have one. I just haven't somehow gotten around to it yet.

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My life has two modes. One is sitting around writing and contemplating or building things. The other is execution mode. It takes a while to switch from one to the other.

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I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

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I've watched with a kind of wary eye how gaming has progressed. I was there at the beginning with Pong in the arcade, and a lot of my great childhood memories were around a 'Tempest' machine.

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I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

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It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

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I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

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When Twitter made its way to my radar I looked at it as a curiosity, then started experimenting. I approached that as a place to be less formal and more off-the-cuff, honest and 'human.'

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